The Killing Stone combines occult contract law with card-battling in an isolated 17th century mansion

The Killing Stone is a card game that casts you as a witch's apprentice going through the will your mistress left behind, only to discover it's a devil's contract with multiple souls tangled up in ...

Surprise, surprise: The ROG Xbox Ally X just got a AU$200 price hike in Australia

The ROG Xbox Ally X was already expensive when it launched late in 2025, but its Australian RRP of AU$1,599 has just increased to AU$1,799. That AU$200 increase is pretty significant when you consider ...

Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act

Earlier this week, the district court of the Western District of Washington favoured Valve Corporation in its 2023 lawsuit ...

New research claims pretty much all headphones contain toxic chemicals that 'may be migrating' into our bodies

As reported by the Guardian, a new study by ToxFree LIFE for All, a Hungarian research and campaigning body, found that ...

Japanese toilet manufacturer reportedly 'most undervalued and overlooked' beneficiary of AI boom

Namely, Toto, a massive Japanese company that manufactures bathroom appliances. This week, investment management company ...

As Destiny 2's player count continues to tank, Bungie announces that the next major update is delayed until June and getting a new name

Quite why a name change is merited isn't clear, given that the update presumably adds to Renegades, the Star Wars-themed update, which was released in December. That means players are now staring down ...

NZXT's latest mini-ITX PC case looks seriously nifty, I'm just not sure how I'm going to afford the RAM for the build...

Funnily enough, NZXT is offering a ready-built H2 Flow in the US, populated with a Gigabyte RTX 5080 graphics card, plus an ...

Spooky visual novel The Mermaid's Curse is the best kind of sequel: a self-contained mystery

There are plenty of superficial similarities between The Mermaid's Curse and the original Paranormasight, a 2023 visual novel that's quietly built up a reputation as one of the best mystery games of ...

Videogames are 'losing in the War for Attention': Analyst says many of the industry's biggest markets are spending less time on gaming

In half of those countries, surveys show that the number of people who describe themselves as regularly playing videogames is lower today than it was before the height of COVID lo ...

DICE has 'heard the message very clear' and is now prioritizing larger maps for Battlefield 6, but 'it takes a really long time'

DICE has indicated that the Golmud Railway remake has been prioritized specifically to address map size in Battlefield 6—the map won't make the cut for Season 2, but its numerous test periods suggest ...

Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record

As for the horror game screeching to the top of the Steam global sellers list, that's probably partly because there's a big cuddly Poppy Playtime Toybox Bundle, where you can buy Chapters 2, 3, and 4 ...

Microsoft's ties with ICE come under fire amidst allegations that the company's cloud and AI technology are being used to support mass surveillance of US citizens

No Azure for Apartheid statement comes the day after reports claiming that ICE has tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft's Azure servers over the past six months.